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Topic: pfSense with FreeNAS in jail (Read 3337 times)

I have a 4GB i5 machine with pfSense running at home, but since it has a lot of free resources i was thinking about running FreeNAS besides it in a jail.Now i dont have a lot of experience in FreeBSD, so im not shure to exactly how i should do this and if it is even secure enough to be a smart solution.

So what are your thoughts about this? Do you have any tips, or even better a FreeNAS-template i could put on it?

jimp is right. It is worth separating a firewall/gateway from the storage for scaleability.

On the other hand, if you are planning to use zfs with freeNAS, then 4GB of RAM would be very little.

I can give you my case. I am trying to run pfSense 2.1 as a UTM and a 1.5GB of RAM is throttling. I am going to upgrade to 4GB due to snort resource usage. Thus, if zfs requires at least 8GB of RAM for production environment with separate drive for ZIL/L2arch.